Training Health Promotion Women Community Leaders

Hadassah Medical Center

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Risk Reduction; Sedentary Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: leadership empowerment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04500977

LDSP-HMO-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Goal of the Program:

To develop personal and group ability for participants in the DPP to plan and implement health promotion programs.

Objectives:

1. Develop skills in the planning, implementation, and assessment of community-based health promotion programs
2. Personal, group and community capacity development in health promotion

Full description

All participants were graduates of our previously implemented diabetes prevention program (DPP), in which women learned the health dangers involved in a sendentary life style, and unhealthy diet, a lack of planned physical activity, insufficient personal health management, and smoking. The importacne of adopting a healthy lifestyle, and how to achieve this goal was stressed. The 24 graduates most motivated to empower others were chosen to take part in this 12 session leadership program. In the leadership program, women were taught more about the manner in which to bring about a change in one's health by adopting a healthy lifestyle, leadership, and facilitation skills and the development, implementation, and evaluation process required to conduct a community program that will impact society as a whole. Women learned how to map needs and resources, define goals and objectives, implement and evaluate a community based program. Following frontal training, three action grousp were established. Each group was responsible for developing and implementing a program in the community. Programs based on initiatives set during the first stage of the DPP included: working in schools to promote a healthy lifestyle, community work targeting non-working/homemaker women ages 25+, enhancing physical activity in the community, and empowering teens. Together, all of these initiatives: increased awareness of fast food dangers, increased awareness to the dangers of nargillah smoking, and increased awareness as to the importance of physical activity.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• had to previously take part in the previously implemented diabetes prevention program (DPP)
• had to have interest and ability in developing programs

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 1 patient group

Training community health promotion leaderss

Experimental group

Description:

Community women are trained in leadership and community-based health promotion skills

Treatment:

Behavioral: leadership empowerment